Petru Dumitriu
| Petru Dumitriu | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 8, 1924 Baziaş, Romania |
| Died | April 6, 2002 Metz, France |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | 1943-2002 |
Petru Dumitriu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpetru dumiˈtri.u]; 8 May 1924 – 6 April 2002) was a Romanian-born novelist who wrote both in Romanian and in French.
Dumitriu was born in Baziaş. His father was a Romanian army officer and his mother was Hungarian and spoke to her husband and son mostly in French, so that French was Petru Dumitriu's second language from childhood. After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philosophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.
After becoming a member of the Romanian Writers' Union committee in 1950, he became editor-in-chief at Viaţa Românească in 1953.
In 1960, Dumitriu fled from Romania to West Berlin, moved to Frankfurt am Main and later to Bad Godesberg, Germany, finally settling in Metz, France. He did not return to Romania until 1996.
He was married twice: with Henriette Yvonne Stahl, a French-born Romanian writer 24 years his senior, in 1956 (they divorced after about one week), and the same year with Irina Medrea (divorced in 1988).
He had two daughters: Irene (born 1959) and Helene (born 1961)
Partial list of publications:
(ESPLA: Editura de Stat pentru Literatură si Arta, [Romanian] State Publishing House for Literature and Art, Bucharest)
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